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Governor Jerry Brown has named a flurry of appointments, including United Talent Agency co-president Jay Sures to the University of California Board of Regents, the governing board of the University of California.
Sures has been co-president at UTA since 2017, where he was managing director from 1989 to 2017. He…

Expected to visit Northern California, President Donald Trump has added a visit to Southern California and the Ventura County fire areas to his itinerary.
Air Force One touched down at Naval Air Station Point Magu at 3:07 PM, a location just north of Los Angeles. Trump planned to meet with Andrew Fox, the mayor of…

Donald Trump paid a visit to the Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park in Paradise, Calif. with Gov. Jerry Brown, Governor-elect Gavin Newsom and Paradise mayor Jody Jones.
Upon evaluation of the devastation, Trump said: "I don't think we'll have this again to this extent.” He added, “Hopefully this is going to be the…

UPDATE, 3:06 PM: President Donald Trump continued to praise the firefighters and first responders battling the California wildfires, a somewhat sore point in some sectors because of earlier tweets that seemed to assign blame on forest managers.
President @realDonaldTrump is traveling to California to meet with…

UPDATED with MPAA statement: Gov. Jerry Brownsigned a a five-year extension of California's film incentives program Wednesday, extending the state’s production tax credit system to 2025. The move will provide an additional $1.65 billion to qualified film and TV shows shot in the state.
The program was part of a $139…

With less than six months before his successor is elected, California Gov. Jerry Brown today extended one last gift to Hollywood with the signing of his last state budget and legislation to continue the $330 million film and television tax credit program.
Inking the $201 billion budget Wednesday in Los Angeles, Brown…

Barack Obama is coming to Beverly Hills next week to rake in dough for the Democrats, but Jeffrey Katzenberg made it rain money for the party on Monday.
In a hosted fundraiser last night at Spago, the former DreamWorks Animation boss and now WndrCo chief and spouse Marilyn helped raise $4.5 million for Democrats…

Five more years of California's annual $330 million in film and television incentives took a big step forward today. A rare unanimous vote in the state Senate in Sacramento passed legislation designed to extend the lucrative program until 2025.
However, coming after a similar vote in the state Assembly earlier this…

We don't know who applied, and those who did don't know if they got the incentive yet, but the first round of the Golden State’s now expanded Film and TV Tax Credits program has started off strong. With the lottery system now dead, this opening application period saw 37 TV projects apply digitally between May 11 and…

UPDATE, 3:40 AM: Sheila Kuehl has defeated Bobby Shriver to become the newest member of the LA County Board of Supervisors. With 100% of the votes counted, Kuehl received 52.8% of the vote to Shriver's 47.2%. The final vote tally was 114,348 votes for Kuehl and 102,319 for Shriver. Some of Hollywood's biggest stars…

It was a bad midterm Election Night for Democrats overall but a good one for Democrats supported by the WGA West's political action committee. California Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris both won re-election, as did Sens. Al Franken of Minnesota, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New…